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Atlanta gets a Walk Score
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The city of Atlanta got it's own walk score this week in a report released by the Brookings Institute. The region ranked 14th among the 30 largest American metropolitan areas in a survey of walkable urban places released this Tuesday.
The report high-lighted four hot spots for walkability in Atlanta:
- Atlantic Station
- Buckhead
- Decatur
- Midtown
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Thanks to Sally Flocks of PEDS, for the "heads-up" on the Brooking Institute report.
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Christopher B. Leinberger has written an excellent essay on the topic of walkable urban neighborhoods at Atlantic.com. Here's an excerpt:
In most metropolitan areas, only 5 to 10 percent of the housing stock is located in walkable urban places (including places like downtown White Plains and Belmar). Yet recent consumer research by Jonathan Levine of the University of Michigan and Lawrence Frank of the University of British Columbia suggests that roughly one in three homeowners would prefer to live in these types of places. In one study, for instance, Levine and his colleagues asked more than 1,600 mostly suburban residents of the Atlanta and Boston metro areas to hypothetically trade off typical suburban amenities (such as large living spaces) against typical urban ones (like living within walking distance of retail districts). All in all, they found that only about a third of the people surveyed solidly preferred traditional suburban lifestyles, featuring large houses and lots of driving. Another third, roughly, had mixed feelings. The final third wanted to live in mixed-use, walkable urban areas—but most had no way to do so at an affordable price. Over time, as urban and faux-urban building continues, that will change.
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